The PSA of the Week

  Not everything involving better health is connected to medicine. The 3-word descriptor of Augusta’s Most Salubrious Newspaper (TM) – health, wellness, medicine – covers a lot of territory. Today, by way of the PSA of the Week, they’re going to cover DIY. You know what that means: Do It Yourself. Yesterday I had those three letters at the top of …

Here’s a good one

Tuesdays are PSA of the Week Day. No, not Prostate Specific Antigen. That’s something else. This PSA is Public Service Announcement. Something that offers a worthwhile reminder on an important topic. By that measure, this one has to rank near the top of the chart.

PSA of the Week

We could get all heavy-handed and deliver a lecture that kids would just tune out, so let’s go with this instead. Same message, though.

The growth is growing

This is interesting, and not really in a good way. Although the latest figures shown here (2011) are down from their peak about ten years earlier, they still show an increase in the average American’s diet of more than 750 calories every single day compared with the base number (1961). Comparing the 1961 average to the 2011 average represents almost …

PSA of the Week

Yes, we usually do this on Tuesdays. Did you see the PSA of the Week posted on the Medical Examiner Facebook page? Check it out on Facebook.com/AugustaRX. Here’s another one that perfectly coincides with the stunning figures about breastfeeding (or the lack thereof in a report just published in The Lancet. Just to give you one small fact: near-universal levels …

The PSA of the Week

Not to toot our own horn – something we’re loathe to do – but did you notice that the Medical Examiner now features The Advice Doctor as of the premiere issue of 2016? Yes, the rumors are true, even though you thought they were too good to be true. But sometimes when something seems too good to be true, that …

It is this week’s PSA

With apologies to all Facebook friends, yours and mine, friends are only friends when they’re friends in 3D. Sorry, but Facebook friends don’t count.

A very seasonal PSA

It’s really easy this time of year to amass debt that can take months (if not years) to repay. And while you’re doing it (paying it off slowly and laboriously), you would be extremely hard-pressed to remember even 5% of what you bought. The better course may not do a lot for the economy, but it will do a lot …